Good cities implement good systems design – systems that cultivate life, systems that utilize waste, systems that promote wellbeing among its residents.
Liquidity is essential in business. So many businesses fail because of a failure to retain liquidity. But the principle is simple – to get things done, businesses need access to cash and capital. And without that access to cash and capital the business will fail because it won’t be able to find it’s operations.
Biomimicry is critical in regard to using design as a way to solve problems in business. Biological ecosystems have invented solution after solution to all kinds of problems. The key is to learn to see nature through nature’s eyes, and to speak nature’s language and then to establish a continuous translation between biological ecosystems and human ecosystems.
Good leaders are balanced people. They’re both decisive and thoughtful. They’re both curt and kind. They’re both focused and considerate of broader realities.
There’s power in intuitive organic growth. Sometimes businesses thrive by just taking it one step at a time as opposed to having some grand strategy. Strategy is really important in business, but so is intuition.
There’s relevant data, and there’s irrelevant data. In business, it’s important to only utilize relevant data.
I don’t eat animals – I think eating animals is disgusting.
In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow. Liquidity facilitates liquidity.
Everything we need to know about upcycling, we can learn from fungi.
Managing waste is a really bad goal. Only an inefficient system would aim to manage waste. A better goal is making waste non-existent by designing the system itself, through it’s participants, to continually upcycle resources.
In business, when it comes to implementing change, there’s a lot of redefining that often needs to happen... that might include redefining budgets, redefining resources, redefining business processes, and redefining value.
For any business to endure in today’s ever changing global economy, there has to be a willingness and an ability for that business to consistently renew itself and redefine itself and revitalize itself.
In business and in all of life, a major part of effective crisis management is acknowledging the existence of the bad things that are happening. Once you have that acceptance, you can begin to strategize step by step how to manage the crisis and emerge from the crisis into a more favorable reality. But if you pretend like the bad things aren’t happening, they magnify the crisis.
When new things emerge in our world, its best to put some time into researching them and trying to gain an understanding. With that understanding, you’re then able to think about and plan for the new business applications for those things and the new ways in which your business may profit from them.
One of the major prompts for businesses implementing change is the evolution of technology. As new technologies emerge or new use cases emerge for existing technologies; markets are forced to reorganize and therefore businesses are prompted to reorganize in response to that.
As a business owner you should never mix business income with personal income and never mix business expenses with personal expenses. Your business is a separate entity with a life of its own. Your job is to lead and manage that separate entity, not to entangle with it. Entangling with your business will result in chaos. But keeping business and personal separate will facilitate efficiency and reduce stress.
I’m so grateful – the love me and my daughter Chaya share is so powerful and so potent and so pure. What we give each other is unconditional and unrestrained love. We pour that love into each other, and we embrace that love from each other with thankful hearts. So much so, that parts of ourselves live within the other. Nothing and no one could separate us. Nothing and no one could jeapordize our love. That’s the magnitude of our daddy daughter love. That’s me and Chaya.
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology offer a lot of potential with investing.
Being Bahamian, Panamanian and US American allows me to have a very unique perspective on the Americas, on the world, and on global commerce. I think big and I think holistically. And I’ve embedded that way of thinking into Mayflower-Plymouth.
When a business is experiencing dysfunction, it often times has a lot to do with internal processes and internal systems. And when we put in place new internal processes and new internal systems based on clear objectives and a clear value-add strategy, the business transitions from dysfunction to effectiveness.